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I don't mind doing with out "phroo-phroo" (unnecessary items or frilly things) but some things that really make me smile I do miss. One thing was a cement pig that Gardeners
Supply catalog carries. I've admired him for about 2 years, but $29 plus shipping seemed like too much to pay for something I really didn't NEED. This pig is standing up, swinging
on a rope swing, with laughing out loud look on his face.I showed the pig to John one day when I was feeling low and then didn't really think about it again. My birthday came on Dec. 1 and John
spent the morning with me, just being with me, I honestly don't remember where we went, but when I came home I went to the kitchen to fix a cup of coffee. As the water heated I
looked out the kitchen window at the bird feeder tree. I saw something hanging from the opposite side of the tree and wondered what in the world was wrong with
my tree! As I followed the 2 ropes down from the branches, there was a laughing, cement pig, just aswinging away in breeze. John said he could hear me laughing my head off from the other side of the house.
He wondered if I'd ever find the pig and was getting impatient with me. As I pondered what to name my pig the name Wilby kept coming to mind. I even
wrote in my journal about him, "I named him Wilby, short for Wilbur Burns" and I never thought any more about the name of the pig. Every morning I greet Wilby
and ask him how the weather will be - if he's swinging wildly, it's windy; if he's wet, it's raining and once in a great while, if he's white, it's icy or snowy.
A week or so later I was fighting with some plastic on a temporary cold frame I was making just to do some garden testing. I HATE jerry-rigging things and this
temporary cold frame looked horrible. I was frustrated with the plastic, the wind was cold, the ground was wet and I was tired of it all. All of a sudden, God gave
me the thought, "It doesn't look like much now, but it will be." And I started laughing out loud. Will be. Wilby. Wilby's name didn't stand for Wilbur Burns. It
stood for "will be". Now when I become frustrated (too easily lately), Wilby and I have a good laugh (sometimes after the cry) and I say out loud, "It doesn't look like
much right now, but some day it will be". Everyone needs a Wilby, he breeds hope and a good laugh every day.
Debbie
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